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300 Frequently Asked Questions about Capability Brown, and a further 200 about Humphry Repton

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79: Would you call Brown ‘Capability’ to his face?

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On October 3, 2015

In Character, Friends and society

A couple of late additions on the nick-name of Lancelot Brown (note 3): Mrs L of Harrogate has lately moved up in the world and now resides in Ilkley where her near neighbour Lord C recalls a comment made of the Drury Lane Theatre by his ancestor Lord Chalkstone in 1757: ‘The place … has “fine capabilities” … the whole wants variety, extent, contrast, and inequality.’

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3: When did Brown get his nickname?

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On September 3, 2015

In Brown's life, Character

Mrs B from Lincoln has written in to ask when people first started to call that canny gardener, Lancelot Brown by his nickname ‘Capability’.

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Hullo all, they call me Oofy, Oofy Price actually. Well the Tatler’s Waste-bin was a wash-out. Just not licking the lolly. So me and the chaps have taken over and we’re starting a paper. ‘The Repton Gazette’. Sounds good doesn’t it? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a wow for Reppers. Humphry - incidentally – he gets the hump – get it? - if you put the ‘e’ in. Same rules as for the last lot (questions numbered and logged on receipt, responses whenever we get round to it, everyone anonymous unless requested otherwise). Thought it would be jolly to start numbering with 1818 (year Repton died) and rock up to the present, 200 FAQs later. So the sooner the team gets here, the sooner we start. Ta-ta for now. Oofy. Incidentally. They keep up-dating the Brown stuff. The latest changes are notes 13, 41, 99, 101, 104, 154, 157, 166, 266, 271, 297 and 298.

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